At The Rumpus, Richard Greenwald writes about the novels of Jonathan Lethem, urban gentrification, and the Sisyphean feat of achieving authenticity in New York.
Jonathan Lethem’s New York
Take Shelter
"I found it hard to escape the sensation that I’d be teaching inside a giant metaphor." Rachel Kadish once taught a creative writing class in a bomb shelter, but rather than stifling her students' work, it allowed her to see how writing can act as a shelter, too.
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Is That a Manuscript in Your Pants, or…?
“Success in writing takes serious commitment and a willingness to devote thousands of hours to the craft of having sex with key publishing professionals.”
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